EHF Challenge Cup 2009/10

In the EHF Challenge Cup 2009/10 , 33 handball club teams took part, which had qualified for the competition in their home countries in the previous season. It was the 10th edition of the Challenge Cup. The defending champion was the Romanian club UCM Sport Resita . The cup games began on October 9, 2009, the second final took place on May 29, 2010. In the final, Sporting Lisbon from Portugal prevailed against the Polish representative MMTS Kwidzyn.

mode

The competition started in round 2 with a group phase with 4 groups with 4 teams in which everyone played against everyone in a simple round . The first two of the group moved into round 3, in which 10 other, higher-ranking teams got on. From this round, including the final, the game was played in a knockout system with a return leg. The 9 winners of round 3 moved into round 4, in which 7 other teams entered. The winners of round 4 advanced to the quarter-finals. The winner of the final was the EHF Challenge Cup winner of the 2009/10 season.

round 2

All games were played from October 9, 2009 to October 11, 2009, group A in Sisak , Croatia, group B in Luhansk , Ukraine, group C in Odorheiu Secuiesc , Romania and group D in Plav , Montenegro.

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Drammen HK	03	03	00	00	0120: 7300	+47	06th
02.	RK Siscia	03	02	00	01	0112: 7900	+33	04th
03.	E&O Emmen	03	01	00	02	0102: 9800	+4	02
04th	Dublin International HC	03	00	00	03	0046: 1300	−84	00

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Burewestnik Luhansk	03	03	00	00	0105: 6200	+43	06th
02.	AS Filippos Verias	03	02	00	01	0119: 5400	+65	04th
03.	HK Lokomotiv Varna	03	01	00	02	0064: 1050	−41	02
04th	Manchester HC	03	00	00	03	0052: 1190	−67	00

Group C

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	HC Odorheiu Secuiesc	03	03	00	00	0107: 7400	+33	06th
02.	Albatro Syracuse	03	01	01	01	0088:6300	+25	03
03.	RK Konjuh Živinice	03	01	01	01	0091:8700	+4	03
04th	Great Dane HC London	03	00	00	03	0060: 1220	−62	00

Group D

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Xico Andebol	03	02	01	00	0105: 6800	+37	05
02.	RK Berane	03	02	00	01	0095:7800	+17	04th
03.	RK Tineks Prolet Skopje	03	01	01	01	0113: 7900	+34	03
04th	Olympia HC	03	00	00	03	0066: 1540	−88	00

Round 3

The return matches took place between November 14, 2009 and November 22, 2009.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Drammen HK	45: 53	Stord IL	21:22	24:31
AO Dimou Thermaikou	60 : 55	RK Berane	33:25	27:30
Albatro Syracuse	40: 64	Metaloplastika Šabac	18:31	22:33
RK Gradačac	45: 63	Xico Andebol	26:33	7:30 p.m.
HK Motor Zaporizhia	20 : 0	RK Siscia	10-0	10-0
HC Odorheiu Secuiesc	54 : 49	Pelister Bitola	31:21	23:28
BB Ankara Spor	58: 61	Bologna handball	29:28	29:33
IFK Ystad HK	66 : 57	AS Filippos Verias	36:28	30:29
RK Metković	32: 34	Burewestnik Luhansk	32:24	0:10

Round 4

The draw for the round of 16 took place on November 24, 2009 at 11:00 (UTC + 2) in Vienna.

Team 1	Team 2	First leg	Return leg	total
CSM Bacau Moskalenko 14	HK Motor Zaporizhia Lochman 8	02/14 Sun. 5:00 p.m.	02/21 Sunday 4:00 p.m.	62  : 46
		33: 20 (17: 12)	29: 26 (17: 13)
		1,200 spectators	1,200 spectators
HC Budvanska rivijera Milošević 15	Stord IL Olsson 12	02/13 Sat 6 p.m.	02/14 Sun 6 p.m.	42: 53
		20: 24 (11: 09)	22:29 (11:18)
		1,200 spectators	500 spectators
Sporting Lisbon Silva Osorio Solha 15	AO Dimou Thermaikou Tsatsos 9	02/14 Sun. 5:00 p.m.	02/21 Sun 6 p.m.	73  : 44
		39: 24 (20: 09)	34: 20 (18: 07)
		500 spectators	100 spectators
MMTS Kwidzyn  Adamuszek 12	HC Odorheiu Secuiesc Mihalcea 13	02/13 Sat. 5:00 p.m.	February 20 Sat 6 p.m.	55  : 55 *
		32: 20 (17: 07)	23:35 (11:16)
		1,200 spectators	1,200 spectators
Xico Andebol Silva 13	Metaloplastika Šabac Milošević 10	02/13 Sat. 6:30 p.m.	02/14 Sun 6:30 p.m.	53  : 52
		34: 29 (18: 13)	19:23 ( 08:11)
		1,000 spectators	1,000 spectators
CSU Suceava Gavriloaia 14	Burewestnik Luhansk Karamyshev 9	02/13 Sat. 5:00 p.m.	February 20 Sa. 2 p.m.	62  : 41
		31: 20 (15: 13)	31: 21 (13: 09)
		500 spectators	400 spectators
ATSV Innsbruck Radjenović 14	Bologna United Kažić 10	02/13 Sat. 6:30 p.m.	02/21 Sun 6:30 p.m.	56: 62
		29: 30 (12: 15)	27: 32 (11: 16)
		400 spectators	600 spectators
IFK Ystad HK Karlsson 12	Slovan Ljubljana  Božović 10	02/17 Wed. 7:00 p.m.	02/21 Sun 6:30 p.m.	55: 58
		28: 21 ( 09: 10)	27: 37 (14: 18)
		800 spectators	1,000 spectators

^*MMTS Kwidzyn qualified for the next round due to the away goals rule .

Quarter finals

The draw for the quarter-finals took place on March 23, 2010 at 11:00 (UTC + 2) in Vienna.

Team 1	Team 2	First leg	Return leg	total
Slovan Ljubljana Božič 13	CSU Suceava Adomnicai 11	28.03. Sun 6:30 p.m.	04/03 Sat 11:00 a.m.	56  : 55
		31: 23 (17: 12)	25: 32 (12: 16)
		500 spectators	400 spectators
MMTS Kwidzyn Adamuszek 11	Xico Andebol Costa 13	04/03 Sat. 5:00 p.m.	04/04 Sun. 5:00 p.m.	53  : 51
		25: 28 (11: 17)	28: 23 (12: 13)
		800 spectators	900 spectators
Sporting Lisbon Silva Osorio Solha 16	CSM Bacau Iacob 12	28.03. Sun. 5:00 p.m.	04/03 Sat. 1:30 p.m.	53  : 52
		30: 24 (15: 13)	23:28 (13:16)
		600 spectators	1,500 spectators
Stord IL Nyhammer 16	Bologna United Kažić 12	28.03. Sun 7:00 p.m.	04/04 Sun 6:30 p.m.	45: 53
		22:25 ( 09:17)	23: 28 (12: 14)
		600 spectators	600 spectators

Semifinals

The semi-final draw took place on April 6, 2010 at 11:00 am in Vienna.

Team 1	Team 2	First leg	Return leg	total
Sporting Lisbon Silva Osorio Solha 14	Slovan Ljubljana Božič 10	April 24, 2010	May 2, 2010	58 : 56
		28:23	30:33
		1,100 spectators	1,000 spectators
Bologna United Montalto 8	MMTS Kwidzyn Mroczkowski 10	April 25, 2010	May 2, 2010	43: 52
		24:24	19:28
		1,200 spectators	900 spectators

final

The draw for the finals took place on May 3, 2010 at 11:00 am in Vienna.

	total		First leg	Return leg
MMTS Kwidzyn	51: 54	Sporting Lisbon	25:27	26:27

First leg

On May 23, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. in Kwidzyn in the Hala Sportova KCSIR in front of 900 spectators.

MMTS Kwidzyn: Gawlik, Suchowicz - Orzechowski (5), Wardzinski (5), Seroka (4), Adamuszek (3), Mroczkowski (3), Peret (2), Czertowicz (1), Marhun (1), Rombel (1 ), Cieslak, Waszkiewicz , Witaszak

Sporting Lisbon: Dias Gomes - Silva Osorio Solha (7), Bjelanovic (6), Lesjak (4), Petric (3), Ramos Magalhaes (3), Campos Pinto (2), Caseiro Portela (1), Seabra Marques (1 ), Barradas Correia, Martins Dias, Nogueira Galambas, Oliviera Nunes, Tavares da Rocha

Referees: Marco Meyer and Lukas Stalder

Return leg

On May 29, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Lisbon in the Pavilhao do Complexo Desportivo Municipal Casal Vistoso in front of 3,500 spectators.

Sporting Lisbon: Dias Gomes - Petric (6), Campos Pinto (5), Silva Osorio Solha (5), Ramos Magalhaes (4), Bjelanovic (3), Lesjak (2), Almeida Moreira (1), Seabra Marques (1 ), Barradas Correia, Caseiro Portela, Martins Dias, Nogueira Galambas, Tavares da Rocha

MMTS Kwidzyn: Gawlik, Suchowicz - Mroczkowski (6), Adamuszek (5), Waszkiewicz (5), Peret (2), Rombel (2), Cieslak (1), Czertowicz (1), Marhun (1), Seroka (1 ), Wardzinski (1), Witaszak (1), Orzechowski

Referees: Vjekoslav Lovric and Hrvoje Petkovic

See also

• EHF Champions League 2009/10
• EHF European Cup Winners' Cup 2009/10
• EHF Cup 2009/10

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2009/10 Men's Challenge Cup / Final. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed April 26, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Match details MMTS Kwidzyn - Sporting Lisbon ( English ) European Handball Federation. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
3. ↑ Match details Sporting Lisbon - MMTS Kwidzynl ( English ) European Handball Federation. Retrieved March 17, 2019.